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Too Many Mutants: Review The New and Returning Characters in "X-Men: Days of Future Past"

X-Men: Days of Future Past (hitting theaters Friday) has a cast bigger than Game of Thrones. With over 20 mutants spanning multiple generations, you should probably sit back and catch up on the biggest names in the X-Universe.

Wolverine

The star and everyone's favorite X-Man, this is Wolverine's 7th appearance in an X-Men film. With his super fast healing, and adamantium claws, he's the perfect candidate for time travel.

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Storm

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Played By: Halle BerryFirst Appearance: X-Men (2000)

A longtime team member, and teacher at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Storm often plays a leadership role in the X-Men. Her ability to manipulate the weather, makes her particularly deadly in open spaces.

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Quicksilver

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Played By: Evan PetersFirst Appearance: Brand New

Much like DC Comic's The Flash, Quicksilver has been gifted with super speed, an asset Wolverine uses to plan a jailbreak.

Fun Comic Fact: He's Magneto's son! I wonder if the movies will touch on that.Fun Fact #2: Avengers 2 will have a different incarnation of the character played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. These laws about movie rights are weird.

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Blink

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Played By: Bingbing FanFirst Appearance: Brand New

Like fan favorite Nightcrawler, Blink has the ability to teleport herself, others and large objects. Unlike Nightcrawler, she does so by opening portals (not like the game). She can also use these portals as weapons by teleporting only half of a person or object which "shreds" them.

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Beast

Beast wasn't always a blue, hairy guy. While experimenting on a way to remove his mutation, awesome strength and agility, Dr. Hank McCoy heightened his own abilities and turned himself into the Beast. In his later life, he becomes an elected politician campaigning for Mutant Rights.

It appears Nicholas Hoult will start the film without his Beast powers, but the Sentinel threat will require he transform yet again.

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Magneto

Magneto, aka Erik Lehnsherr, is traditionally the X-Men's main nemesis. Believing mutants to be the next step in human evolution, and fearing persecution from Homo sapiens, he is a militant leader for Mutant Rights.

His ability to control metal through magnetic manipulation makes him a powerful force. He'll have to team up with his foil Charles Xavier to stop the Sentinels.

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Professor X

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Played By: Patrick Stewart/James McAvoyFirst Appearance: X-Men (2000)

The leader of the X-Men, and powerful Telepath, Charles Xavier opened his School for Gifted Youngsters to create a safe haven for young mutants. After becoming paralyzed, Charles gave up his mutant powers to gain the use of his legs. Will he sacrifice them in order to save the world?

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Colossus

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Played By: Daniel CudmoreFirst Appearance: X2 (2003)

Colossus' metal skin makes him both strong and tough. In the comics he's a Russian immigrant, and on-again/off-again love interest of Shadowcat. In the movies, he's an under-developed character who punches things.

Colossus is at the top of my list of under-utilized X-Men characters.

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Iceman

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Played By: Shawn AshmoreFirst Appearance: X-Men (2000)

One of the X-Men's newest recruits, Iceman is a recent graduate from Xavier's School. He can use his ice manipulation to create slides, armor and projectiles. He also dated both Rogue and Shadowcat, two other former students of Xavier's School.

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Bishop

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Played By: Omar SyFirst Appearance: Brand New

It wouldn't be a time travel X-Men story without Bishop. In the comics he came to the X-Men from a dystopian future and his cold anti-hero ways made him half ally/half enemy. His ability to absorb energy, and use the reserves to strengthen and heal himself, make him particularly difficult to hurt.

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Mystique

Because of her blue skin and yellow eyes, Raven Darkholme has always been ostracized from society. Even though Her ability to transform her appearance allows her to blend into any situation, she has only ever been able to be herself around Magneto and his Brotherhood of mutants.